Improvement in sewing-machines



E. 'P. RICHARDSON.

Sewing Machine.

Patented Oct. 3051866.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

E. P. RICHARDSON, OF LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEME'NT IN SEWING-MACHINES.

Spccitication forming part of Letters Patent N0. 59,265, dated October 30, 1866 To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, E. P. RICHARDSON, of Lawrence, in the county of Essex, in the State ot' Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sewing-Machines for Sewing Turned Shoes; and I do hereby de clare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of an ordinary wax-thread sewingmachine, no part of which I claim, but to which my improvement may be attached. The same gurc shows a transverse section near the toe of the sole, the last, and the upper. Fig. 2 shows a section of the shoe after being sewed and turned 5 Fig. 3, a section of the shoe, last, &c.

B, Fig. 1, is the needle; O, the sole, on the esh side ot' which the channel a is cut, in which the foot F rests, forming a guide, and also holding down the sole. Dis the last; E,

theupper. G represents the guard, against which the operator keeps the surface of the sole, near the edge, or that part technically known as the feather-edge,77 b; or the upper E may be between the sole and the guard G, as shown in Fig. 3, the object `being to keep the soleand upper, while being sewed, in such a position and at such an angle in relation to the needle that the -needle shall follow, or nearly so, the line c d, whether the machine is so arranged that the needle enters the sole at the bottom of the channel a, or, going through the other way, enters the upper rst and then the sole.

I claim- 'lhe combination of the foot F and the guard or guide G, arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose specified.

E. P. RICHARDSON.

Witnesses: I

JOHN K. TARBOX, GEO. E. DAVIS. 

